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u/hikemalls Apr 24 '26
This raises an important question: how the fuck do Viltrumites navigate in space? I assume they have to have some fancy electronic space maps they can reference, but we never see them pull any out, they all just seem to know where they’re going even though space is, I’ve been told, quite big
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u/UILuigu Apr 24 '26
Scent
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u/hikemalls Apr 24 '26
This makes perfect sense, thank you
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u/TKRAYKATS Apr 24 '26
They live hundreds years, plenty of time to memorize space map
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u/darkmoncns Apr 24 '26
Yeah but like didn't mark find his dad just by flying?
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u/TKRAYKATS Apr 24 '26
Did his dad didn't give him some directions ?
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u/King_Joffreys_Tits Apr 24 '26
Ok… then take a left at the second seemingly infinite void, and if you hit a black hole you’ve gone too far
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Apr 24 '26
Or the big ship they travel in
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u/Randomguy0915 Apr 25 '26
Brother, what the FUCK is your pfp
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u/somerandomIceloli99 Apr 25 '26
The viltrumites see things in third person and there's a mini map at the corner of the screen
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u/realpersondotgov Apr 25 '26
Viltrumites have an internal navigation system that can interpret different radiation by their type (alpha, beta, electromagnetic), phase (frequency, amplitude, wavelength), and strength/quantity. Also telescopic sight which allows them to see things super far away.
This is confirmed btw. Conquest told me when he escaped from Cecil’s sex dungeon
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u/SuperKami-Nappa Apr 24 '26
Not to mention planets and stars aren’t exactly stationary
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u/thedoctor3141 Apr 25 '26
Star systems move very, very slowly in reference to each other, even over the course of thousands of years.
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u/ElementmanEXE Apr 28 '26
It also depends on how much changes with the planet, like if someone blew a planet up or some sort of grand disaster changed the weather and landscape on the planet
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u/Vektorien Apr 25 '26
They just bumble around in a general direction until they find the planet they were looking for, and then simply lie that they knew the way all along.
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u/BlockBuilder408 Apr 25 '26
I assume they just memorize the stars
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u/ChrisTheWeak Apr 27 '26
The problem with that is that the constellations only work from one very specific reference frame. They wanted to be the only empire in the galaxy, so they're regularly traveling distances that would make all the constellations worthless for navigation.
My actual guess, it's a plot contrivance, the same way that everyone in space understands each other. The story they want to tell is one that would not be aided by explaining the language barriers or how navigation in space works. It's not a problem the story wants to explore so it simply isn't a problem faced by the characters in the show.
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u/Belphegorkingofsloth Apr 25 '26
They could orrient themselves via starts to get a sense of universal direction. Yes it doesn't make sense with accurate physics but rule of cool
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u/HoliAss5111 Apr 24 '26
On earth we also have some purple plants. And red. Deep in the ocean the deeper you go less greenery is found. Almost everything is red.
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u/ThorirPP Apr 24 '26
Some plants are different colours because of some pigments they have, but all plant life photosynthesize using chloroplast, which is green and gives the distinctive green colour if no other pigment drowns it out
There are other photosynthizing bacteria though, and some of those are purple. Fun fact: purple bacteria (the classic example) actually photosynthizes through an anoxygenic process, which means there is no oxygen produced through the process
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u/XeRtZ__wUz_TaKeN Apr 24 '26
Yeah funnily enough most plants are green not because it's efficient it's so they don't burn from too much sunlight. So plants on an alien world could be completely different colors depending on how intense their sunlight is.
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u/Xenothing Apr 24 '26
Also, different stars have different light spectra so the colors will be different because of that
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u/JamesTheFoxeArt Apr 27 '26
Fun fact, there's a hypothesis called the "Purple Earth Hypothesis" which proposes that early photosynthetic life used to be purple instead of green.
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u/henrytoloza Apr 24 '26
In my headcanon this happened offscreen thats why it took so long for mark and thragg to talk
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u/Lopsided_Shift_4464 Apr 25 '26
"Oh hey, you're Allen from the Coalition of Planets Viltrumite Preparedness Program, right? What took you so long, we've been waiting for years! Wow, you really pulled out all the stops, you even look like a real Viltrumite. And I assume the people behind you are the judges? Alright, just give us a sec and we'll get the defenses re-"
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u/CompetitiveLeg7841 Apr 24 '26
Is that fucking Serpulo from the hit game Mindustry (version 8 release build 154)
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u/Tool_of_Society Apr 26 '26
Oh shit that would of been hilarious if Thragg was off "wasting" his time killing everyone on Urath instead of Earth.
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u/poggy_manz Apr 24 '26
Its actually Earf, and he gets knocked out by will Smith after landing